The Belgian government opposed the plans of Arselormital liege

The Belgian government announced on Tuesday that it opposed the plans of the metallurgical company Arselormital liege, who assumes Closing part of the production and is going to pay all his attention to the search for the buyer for liquidated workshops. About this writes The Wall Street Jourmal.

"We do not agree with the decision to close production in Belgium," the Belgian government and local trade unions said in a joint statement of the Government of Belgian, "we will make every effort to continue the production, and the jobs have been preserved."

"Belgium metallurgical industry has a future, but he needs innovation," said Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Ruopo.

The federal government and local authorities created a working group, the purpose of which is to study alternatives to the Arselormittal plan and the search for a new owner for Belgian metallurgical capacities. The representative of the Belgian government said that a bill regulating dismissal, the adoption of which would not allow Lakshmi Mittal, to leave more than 1300 people, was submitted to the office members.

Arselormittal, in turn, is full of desire to close the loss -making production lines, explaining its decision by the lack of prospects for the restoration of demand in the eurozone after falling more than 29% since 2007.

As we have already reported, in the Belgian problems in liege, Lakshmi Mittal seeks to get rid of some metallurgical assets in the French Flooral and Luxembourg.